Word: slotted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the average apartment. One of the penthouses is renting at $300 against $450. and another has been leased to a speakeasy. Realtors fear the proposed trans-Bay bridges may increase commuting. Dwellings are 32% vacant in San Francisco. Rentals in the cheaper districts north of Market Street ("The Slot") run about $25 for a two-room apartment, a 10% reduction. Similar reductions prevail in the wooden, stucco-faced buildings on the Marina, where stood the be jeweled buildings of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915). In the residential section rents are off about 20%. Hotel suites (for permanent guests...
...various sizes. Running wildly about the town, he presently arrives at a speakeasy where Groucho Marx is trying to find a pair of professional football players to improve the Huxley team. Chico Marx is associated with the speak-easy as bootlegger and iceman. In the speakeasy. Harpo plays the slot machine with buttons, tries to enlarge his winnings by dropping coins in a pay telephone. He bowls grapefruit at bottles on the bar and when he hears someone say "Cut the cards." does it with an axe which he carries in his pocket...
Trophy v. Gillette. During recent years the unharmonious razor industry has become a lawyers' paradise. Last week another suit sprang up. Trophy Towers Sales Corp. has engaged in the business of selling double-edged blades in slot machines. It used to buy its blades from Trophy Blade Co., half interest in which was held by AutoStrop Safety Razor Co. When AutoStrop and Gillette merged the remaining half interest was acquired. Trophy Blade Co. dissolved. Last week Trophy Towers Sales Corp. brought a $30,000,000 damage suit against Gillette and 19 of its officers and directors. It charged that...
...dozen publishers' representatives crowded around a linotype machine in the Charlotte (N. C.) Observer plant one day last week. No operator sat at the keyboard which was covered by a boxlike apparatus. Into a slot in the box Inventor Buford L. Green, 25 years an Observer employe, fed a sheet of copy typed on translucent paper. Then he turned a switch. To the wonderment of onlookers, the lintoype proceeded to set a galley of accurate type...
...cents will still buy two boxes of matches or two pieces of slot-machine gum or two peeps at a bathing beauty undressing in a penny arcade. But after April 1 two cents will no longer be sufficient to post one letter to any foreign country...